Hello!
When of my site's users authenticates, I'd like to immediately redirect them to their own home page in the system... In other words, upon becoming a member of the system, each user will have their own instance of a "member" class and upon authenticating, I want to forward them to the "View" view of their class.
Are you sure, you want that?
I would be very angry, when that would happen, because it would make bookmarks to my private pages less effective.
Usually, the authentication (login) request comes up when I access a protected page. When I log in, I want to see *THIS* page and not my home page...
I think that the scenario Rob is talking about is a rather common one. We have done several intranet or extranet systems with exactly these requirements. People want to have one single login link on the public part of the page that redirects users to the area they belong to after logging in. This doesn't have to do anything with getting registered by the way. It also doesn't interfere with bookmarking (or linking) pages within the private part of the site, because if such a private page is accessed directly, it will of course trigger a normal login. In case of BASIC AUTHENTICATION, this will not cause any redirection anyway. If you use Cookie Crumbler, you have the option of redirecting back to the URL you are comming from, but it might be a bit complicated to configure ... To answer Rob's second question: As Dieter Maurer points out, you can indeed NOT use auto-login after successful registration in combination with plain BASIC AUTHENTICATION, because you can not control the browser's way of asking users for their credentials. With cookies, this is perfectly possible ... Cheers Joachim